Alex Houston
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12 hours ago, SFGiants58 said:
Low-key, the Sharks have been an utter trainwreck of a franchise for years and it took a long time for the public to realize that.
Trainwreck? Really? In what ways? I've heard some criticisms of San Jose but "trainwreck" is a whole other level now.
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I know it was a long and drawn out process, so in some sense it must be nice as a fan to finally know the team is relocating and you don't have that "what if" question lingering over you every season. If what I read is correct, I hope the team are able to get new owners and be able to make an investment that can actually let this team prosper and become their own minor success story of Sun Belt hockey, like the Preds, Bolts and my Sharks.
Rest easy Coyotes. I'll always remember you for 2012 and those delightful kachina jerseys. Please join the league again someday. -
Dear San Jose. Please stop winning games. This is not how we get better odds at getting Celebrini. Please understand how the draft lottery works.
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Not much to add at this point that hasn't been said. I'm rooting against KC moving forward. They've gotten rings and have become a new dynasty when we could be benefitting from an age of parity, or at the very least, more teams playing for titles besides San Francisco and them.
I tire of their faces and while the first two were fine, this one has been the limit. I'm sure though Mahomes gets at least one more in this decade and continues the comparison talk to Brady, which is kinda weird because once New England was finally done I was more confident we'd need to wait at least another decade or two before we'd see a team get to a Super Bowl a bunch of times within a decade or so.
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16 hours ago, PERRIN said:
Even if it ended in heartbreak, still a helluva season for the Lions. They'll absolutely be back soon enough with all their young talent. Wishing them the best next near.
I can't just drag an image in this forum as easily as I should, but I saw a Tweet with a list that shows recent failures of this with the following teams:
2007 Chargers2009 Jets
2009 Vikings
2010 Jets
2010 Bears
2014 Colts
2015 Cardinals
2017 Jaguars
2019 Titans
2020 Bills
2020 Packers
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23 hours ago, FiddySicks said:
The Ravens always win when I want them to lose, and lose when I want them to win. They’re the goddamn Steelers but in Purple.
You should never want the Steelers to win. There's your first problem.
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Ah, I didn't know we were continuing this into the postseason.
Houston vs. Baltimore
Green Bay vs. San Francisco
Tampa Bay vs. Detroit
Kansas City vs. Buffalo
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You know what, at this point I accept my spot in midcard Hell. I more or less hovered around 10th or so place since the halfway point and that's just alright with me. Was a fun one and I think this was the first one I completed in full in quite some time. Happy 2024 folks.
Pittsburgh vs. Baltimore
Houston vs. Indianapolis
Tampa Bay vs. Carolina
Atlanta vs. New Orleans
NY Jets vs. New England
Cleveland vs. Cincinnati
Jacksonville vs. Tennessee
Minnesota vs. Detroit
Philadelphia vs. NY Giants
Dallas vs. Washington
Seattle vs. Arizona
LA Rams vs. San Francisco
Chicago vs. Green Bay
Kansas City vs. LA Chargers
Denver vs. Las Vegas
Buffalo vs. Miami
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Dang. I continue to hover around five games back of first in this logjam near the top. Got to take a risk here and there to try and break through.
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Dang, still five wins behind the leader. Let's see if I can cut it down this week.
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Patriots
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To echo McCarthy's point, Steelers fans aren't used to the suck anymore. When your franchise hasn't gone through a sustained period of crap, you forget how spoiled you've been and how sports aren't designed for the same seven or eight teams to be stalwarts, winning divisions and fighting for titles. I'm living it now with the Sharks and although I bitched about rooting for a bridesmaid team, I'll admit that years of no postseason activity is worse than I expected.
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Wow, still hanging around, only five games back of the top. Has this been one of the closest standings in years as we get to December? I think it may well be. Like I've said before, I'm at the point where you got to take a leap on two or three teams to try and close that gap.
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Dolphins
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Titans
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I appreciate those trying to incorporate the loon somehow. Be kinda funny to see one of those choices make it into the final few for serious consideration.
Also a fine chuckle to the one that submitted "bayg" with a plastic bag on it. Now that's someone we got the assignment!
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Funny cause the finalist banner looks better than the championship one. It just seems like UConn's name up top is an afterthought and I don't care for the "champions" name being smaller than the year of the title. They should switch it.
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Yea, I hate on Vegas for many things, but the banner is actually surprisingly fresh.
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It still amazes me that Roundball was written by John Tesh of all people. Had you put that on Millionaire back in the day, I'd likely be walking home with the $32,000 safe level prize.
Also, I'm not sure which the name of it but sometimes the bumper music for the MLB on TNT has a riff that sounds kinda similar to me to the one from "In Too Deep" by Sum 41. I assure you this is a weird comparison that only way weird mind would make, but like that wrestling theme comment DGNow made in that thread about underlying similarities, once I heard it I can't unhear it.
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On 11/2/2023 at 7:47 PM, the admiral said:
My mom used to do traffic & continuity. I am fully in my element listening to talk about clocks and avails, bump sheets and affidavits. A computer in the guest bedroom that had DOS without Windows and only ran CBSI. Those were the days. Anyway, I hope next year Fox can sell some inventory before they have to resort to spots about why your business should buy spots.
Your mom probably knew the guy behind the Max Headroom incident, didn't she? Was she the one with the fly swatter? Don't lie know Admiral.
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Damn, even with two pretty good weeks back to back, it somehow feels like I lost ground. I get the impression that if I can't sneak into that top ten in the next two weeks, my chances of getting in the top five of the table is pretty much all for naught. Oh well, still proud of the record overall.
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Vikings
Bengals
Bucs
Lions
Falcons
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Raiders
Bills
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Falcons
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Commanders
Ravens
Bucs
Browns
Panthers
Raiders
Eagles
Bengals
Chargers
EDIT: Hey @Kramerica Industries, not sure when you review the picks but I made some changes if you put them in an Excel sheet or something of the sort.
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On 10/25/2023 at 7:37 PM, TrueYankee26 said:
The 2001 Yankees were also a team of destiny. How did that World Series end up?
True, but how often does the trend get bucked like that? I mean, I hope I'm wrong and Arizona can pull it off and they damn near did last night. But with how decisively Texas has played for good chunks of this postseason, I'm having a harder time believing they can botch this in some significant way.
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Okay, that makes sense if you're discussing the stadium situation. And yea, I've never been thrilled with Plattner behind the gun but SFGiants was making it sound like there was way more dysfunction across the board and I was like, "The hell are you talking about?"